from: Blackwell Publishing houses
Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.80809287
EAN num: 9780631176091
ISBN number: 0631176098
Label: Blackwell Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 691
Printing Date: 1995-09
Publishing house: Blackwell Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 1004038
Studio: Blackwell Publishing houses
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This reader contains 17 new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets. Among those discussed directly are: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Michael Field, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Anne Procter, Christina Rossetti, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. Key topics dealt with include the nature of home, the market, the fallen woman and the moral law, the mother, and the muse. An invaluable critical companion to its sister volume Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, it provides fresh impetus to important current debates about interpretation, concerning: the use of biography, the tension between political and aesthetic readings, the question of poetic value and canonization, the conflict between old historical and new historical approaches, and the validity of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist readings. Critics represented are: Isobel Armstrong, Kathleen Blake, Susan Conley, Stevie Davies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Gill Gregory, Terrence Holt, Linda K. Hughes, Angela Katharine McGowan, A. Leighton, Tricia Lootens, Jerome J. McGann, J. Dorothy Mermin, Margaret Reynolds, Dolores Rosenblum, Chris White, and Joyce Zonana.
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I originally bought this book for a college class I was taking; however, I have since read and re-read many parts of it again and again. It is deeply insightful and covers most of the "known" Victorian Women Poets and some you may not have heard of. There are chapters on Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Christina Rossetti; Felicia Hemans; Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper); Alice Meynell; Charlotte Mew; Augusta Webster; and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. The author and scholar Angela Leighton provides historical background along with the poets' verse and how they combine and merge to make a whole. Leighton states in her Introduction, "women's poetry of the nineteenth century, much more than the novel, was written and read as part of a self-consciously female tradition."
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Many of the greatest Victorian poets have been ignored or been paid lip serice by the canon, simply because they were women. This anthology seeks to correct that. A great starting point for anyone searching for research topics, this book is also wonderful just to have on hand for browsing. The editors give lengthy biographies of each poet and criticial interpretations of some the poems that have been included. This book is invaluable to anyone who is curious about what's been hidden all these years
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